Hey guys. I was just thinking about something that bugs me about WWE games in the past few years. First of all, I like the ability to turn blood off because it makes the game a lot more realistic. Even when they still had blood on TV, in the games, it would be too much. In every match everyone bled from main eventers to guys like Scotty 2 Hottie and whatnot.

What I'm asking is do you guys want it to be MORE realistic? For example, I was thinking it would be cool if it had two settings, "Attitude Era" and "Modern Era" or something like that. The Attitude Era could have the blood and chair shots to the head and all that, and then the Modern Era could automatically turn your opponent around so you can hit him in the back, or hit him in the stomach first and then bend him over to hit the back. Basically, it annoys me that I still do head shots with the chairs because I like things to be up-to-date, for better or worse.

So what do you guys think? Is there anything you'd add to that? Do you agree/disagree/etc?

I definitely disagree. I don't think we need to get too realistic over the current state of wrestling and shape everything accordingly to it. Just think that wrestlers don't hit each other in the head with chairs for fear of concussions. But in the game, well... it's a game. No reason to be cautious about concussions. In the games, you can pitch someone off the top of the cell as many times as you'd like. I look at that and the head chairshots in a similar vein.

And by the sounds of it the "modern era" wouldn't offer anything that the Attitude era doesn't have. Not to mention, what if people want one thing and not the other? Head shots but no blood? Two modes wouldn't be a good idea.

The option to turn blood on/off should definitely be retained for future WWE games which I think is very likely. However, your idea surrounding the use of steel chairs seems rather extreme because as Haz rightfully stated, its just a video game and video games are supposed to offer some sort of escapism so we can actually get enjoyment out of them. It shouldn't be realistic to the point where we simply cannot enjoy the game. With that being said, providing the player with a choice of two settings would overcome such problems, but even then I really don't think there is enough difference between the attitude era and the modern era in terms of in-ring functionality to merit such a feature.

I think having blood turn on for this game will give you the look of the attitude era, people bled just to win the match, I remember Stone Cold busted up and put in the Sharpshooter by Bret Hart in their Wrestlemania Match, One thing I hoping doing this year is give the chairs more moves, like Triple H and Undertaker smacking each other with chairs at WM 28, and not having the chair fall apart after 4 shots to the body, the chair should only break if someone gets hit hard with it.